What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

I was never as happy as I was two days ago when, opening the small package my love had nervously given to me, I discovered a pair of tiny shoes. I then understood that we were going to have a baby.

Brought up and educated in Brazzaville, The Congo, by missionaries. A war has broken out... Everything is destroyed, the town devastated, there is nothing to be found anywhere. However with courage the sisters go back to work, open the nursery and primary schools without any materials. They send out an SOS to ex-pupils of which I am one. Since that time I am running around the shops with my limited means of a retired person. Paints, folding books, etc. etc.... meetings with the people who will carry my packages to Brazza. And in return I receive letters and drawings from little children thanking me and calling me godmother and sometimes mother, this is happiness !!!

What makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.

My job!

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

What makes me happy …To share a meal and an evening with friends.

What made me happy was when I played my first notes on the guitar a few months ago. So far I believed music was not for me.

What made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.

Tomorrow's day is already making me happy.

What makes me happy is when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.

What made me happy was to find out that I was pregnant with the child of the man of my life.

To know that there's at least one person on earth who loves me for who I am, who shares my sad and happy moments and who never gets fed up saying “I love you”.

What does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes me happy!!

To help people as much as I can makes me feel happy.

What really makes me happiest is seeing happy people around me, and what makes my heart smile is sharing my happiness with others.

What makes me happy is that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

My happiness has already lasted for a long time. It renews itself every morning when I go to sample a cup of tea in one of the many Parisian cafés. It's a moment of pure joy, I let myself lapse into dreams in the ambiance of the cafes, and I can no longer do without it.

What makes me happy is life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What made me happy was being born into softness, joy and love, and knowing that when I open my door, all of it spreads out to the entire world.

Financial independance gives me a peace of heart and a certain serenity and the fact of being loved comforts me. Loving a man and receiving love makes me forget my worries and brings me pleasure.

Nothing makes me happier than to create something with my own hands, to prepare some tempting meal that we can all share together later, or to sew cushions myself. There is a magic in creating, making, concocting something with ones own hands. It is a proof that our hands are just an extension of our thoughts.

What makes me happy is to see animals.

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.

What makes my happy is that , currently, I only come across friendly people : the optician and her manager, the sales assistants of the sporting goods store ,of the hardware store and at the cultural goods (cds, dvds, books and video games) and craft arts stores , and the waiters and cashiers at the chinese restaurant).

What makes me happy is to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !

What makes me happy is to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

What made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

What makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

Oh… little everyday trifles make me happy … a smile, a hand in mine…a look, a laughing child…happiness is very relative…but we must know to appreciate the little things.

What makes me happy is reading or writing to my loved ones. It's knowing that I am there for them and that they're there for me.

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

I am most happy when people thank me for holding the door for them on the metro. I leave with a lively step to the RER A.

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

What made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

The purest moment of happiness was my fiance's return to France after eight months spent in prison, in Turkey... All that because he had taken some papers! For now, it's my most beautiful moment.

What makes me happy is the idea that people would learn to love each other, without any feeling of racism. The world is everybody's…

What makes me happy is the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

What makes me happy is the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.

The light and sparkles in children's eyes sometimes make me feel like crying with happiness.

I was never as happy as I was two days ago when, opening the small package my love had nervously given to me, I discovered a pair of tiny shoes. I then understood that we were going to have a baby.

What makes me happy is seeing that my best friend is always there, even when things aren't going well.

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.

My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up

What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.

What makes me happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.

What makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

What makes me happy is being with my family, spending time together, feeling all of their love, expressing how I feel, telling them, showing them.

What makes me happy is thinking of the happy future waiting for me somewhere in the universe.

What makes me happy is people who return my smiles and especially grannies, babies and good-looking

Ce qui m'a rendue heureuse c'est d'avoir eu ma fille.

To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.

The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.

What makes me happy is that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.

What makes me happy is to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).

My grandfather's eyes that sparkled whenever he saw me arrive. The wind that strokes my face, the sun that warms up the heart and finally, just feeling alive!

What makes me happy is seeing her in the morning, brushing her teeth in her robe, her gaze far away. I look at her, and our eyes meet.

It's snowing. I didn't drink today (well… yeah, a little). I'm trying to answer your question… happiness ? For me this intense, deep emotion that moves me : I feel that I'm going to go away… I won't tremble anymore… live, that's all. Happiness is knowing that you can go away, happiness is the smile of someone who doesn't know that I'm an alcoholic. Happiness… is thinking that I'm normal. Happiness : being right, loyal, and honest.